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DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 8
Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), a human rights organization has condemned and opposed all kinds of violence and intolerance that denies the basic right to life and dignity of all human beings and particularly the Nagas.
The NPMHR in a statement said, “We also feel sad and hang our heads with shame to say that all these state of affairs are happening again despite our experiences of the past, from which all of us ought to have learnt. But the powers that be, starting from the State governments to the grass-root social institutions have all failed in upholding their responsibilities, beside mere statements of condemnations, including us, the human rights and other civil society organizations. So also the different Naga National groups and governments, who are also responsible to protect the society and their people for whom they are supposed to be “fighting”.
The NPMHR urged the state government and its law-enforcing agencies to perform its minimum basic duties to book the culprits at the earliest while also urging the Naga National groups and governments to reign-in their cadres, who might be running amok and letting hell loose on fellow Nagas and countrymen in the name of national freedom or cause.
At the same time, NPMHR appealed to the aggrieved Naga brothers and sisters of Kiphire and Samatore towns and areas and requested them not to take the unfortunate incident out of hand which may further aggravate the situation and endanger fellow communities, but to rather join hands to collectively book the culprits and award them befitting and permissible punishments as we fervently repeat our appeal to uphold the Naga filial bond and to shun all forms of violence.
“The history of the Naga people for as long as one can remember has been associated with violence and human suffering on one side while yearning for peace and normalcy has been the desire on the other side, which are both self-inflicted and that of aggressions and our own inability to rise to occasions responsibly. “
The statement said, “Our elders and forefathers fought gallantly against aggressors to pass on to us our identity as a distinct people and protected our land on which we now live with dignity. And despite the many challenges and over-powering circumstances, the present and recent past generation carried on to uphold what our elders passed on to us to the best of their ability successfully, although we had to struggle through our own share of self-inflicting violence.”
“However, with thanks to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, we have lived without deliberate violence for some time and have had respite from the almost daily occurrences of killings amongst ourselves, other than common lawlessness as is prevalent in any society, and we looked forward to a future with hope that our present and future generations will get a life worthy of living according to God’s providence.”
“Most unfortunately and sadly the recent spurts of violence in the form of killing, as is in the case of husband and wife, Alemba and Naro who were killed near Kiphire/Shamatore, on February 6, unidentified man found hanging after being clubbed to death at Jalukie, on February 7, and the killing of Charlie Hangsing last week on February 2, all purportedly perpetrated by “miscreants” and other cases of rapes and crimes, have occurred again only to destroy whatever hopes and dreams our society have come to embrace during the last few years.”
